The Birth and Baptism of Katarzyna Andruszkiewicz – 1848

Katarzyna Andruszkiewicz, daughter of Józef Andruszkiewicz and Salomea Swiacka, was born on 25 November 1848 in Nowa Wieś, Suwalki Powiat, Augustów Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland. She was baptized in the parish church in Wigry, Suwalki Powiat, Augustów Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland on 26 November 1848.

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Nowa Wieś 146.

This happened in Wigry on the twenty-sixth day of November in the year one-thousand eight-hundred forty-eight at the hour of four in the afternoon. There appeared Józef Andruszkiewicz, thirty years of age, a farmer residing in Nowa Wieś, in the presence of Jakub Kuczyński and Mateusz Buchowiecki, both fifty years of age, farmers residing in Nowa Wieś, and he showed Us a child of the female sex born in Nowa Wieś on the twenty-fifth day of November in this same year at the hour of seven in the morning of his wife Salomea née Swiacka, twenty years of age. To this child at Holy Baptism performed on this day was given the name Katarzyna and her Godparents were Józef Lękiewicz and Franciszka Czerwiecza. This document was read aloud to the declarant and was signed by Us. The father and the witnesses do not know how to write.